COME ON, LET'S GET IT OVER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29222, 4 June 1960, Page 12

COME ON, LET'S GET IT OVER

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... there wag undoubtedly a definite market In New Zealand vision ••but you must get the right eubjecW . . . ’Some people MN eee and hear symphony orchestras, but a lot of people like a poedlM d . e Z. or O n J rte . r »now -Mr Edward Kntxe, head of the eceaaadg Metlon of Ziv-Unlted Artists’ television, of Los Angeles, Intel nil WK Aucmana. Fd like to leave New Zealand Before we get T.V., > Whether it’s managed by the State •Or run commercially. I know thia Attitude of mine is weak and unprogressive, Induced by mental Lassitude, Of Cowardice expressive: I ought to stay, and face with calm _ And stoic Acquiescence . The painful Years ahead of Ua Our T.V, Adolescence The sHckening Yean when All will ait Chained to the Fireside Chair, Mindless and motionless before The one-eyed Monster’s Glare. -* Fd rather not be Here to see " 15 The Weather Teleforecast, ■ Or Nordie’s Budget, or some other Parliamentary Bore-cast M The Stuff the Children listen to Drives many a Man demented ( £3 Sir, there is Much Td rather not * See visually presented. 1 • Inevitably, so it seems, _ Y*’ 1 ? B£ in B to view the Races, 1 The Rugby Game, the Orchestra And all those handsome Faces $ For which our Public Men are famed! All that the Camera captures m Not now. Sir, PLEASE. Some other Time Mill ?• Spare me those first wild Raptures. *1